Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri V ... : Appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemaei libro III, cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud. medici oxoniensis speculationibus Harmonicis, operi de Macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis. Accessit nunc propter cognationem materiae eiusdem authoris liber ante 23. annos editus Tubingae, cui titulus Prodromus, seu Mysterium cosmographicum, de causis coelorum numeri, proportionis motuumque periodicorum, ex quinque corporibus regularibus .. (1619)
Author: Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630; Ptolemy, 2nd cent; Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637; Tambach, Gottfried, fl. 1607-1632, publisher; Planck, Johann, fl. 1615-1627, printer; Burndy Library, donor. DSI
Subject: Geometry; Music
Publisher: Lincii Austriae : sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii ..., excudebat Ioannes Plancus
Language: Latin
Call number: 39088002800316
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: smithsonian
Notes: various page number errors, missing pages.
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Books 1-2 and books 3-5 are paged continuously
Books, 1,4 and 5 have special t.p. included in pagination
Numerous errors in paging. The numbers 53-54 are omitted entirely from the page sequence of the 2nd group
The plates are of varying sizes. A narrow plate is inserted between p. 186 and 187; the other four plates are inserted between p. 58 and 59
Head-pieces; initials; side-notes
Errata on p. 255
The final p. is blank
Signatures: *Ab-h²AB-2I
(from t.p.) I. Geometricus, de figurarum regularium ... -- II. Architectonicus, seu ex geometria figurata ... -- III. Propriè harmonicus ... -- IV. Metaphysicus, psychologicus & astrologicus ... -- V. Astronomicus & metaphysicus ... -- [Appendix]
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SCDIRB copy 39088002800316 has bookplate: Burndy Library ..., gift of Bern Dibner
SCDIRB copy has mounted on front paste-down endpaper: a gray postage stamp (DDR 50, issued 1971) bearing a portrait of Kepler signed by Stauf and Volkamer. There is also evidence of repaired/removed autographs on the title page
SCDIRB copy has laid in: A printed bookseller's citation ([2] p. on 2 leaves) for a different copy of this edition, also owned by the Burndy Library (formerly J. Horrocks' copy)
SCDIRB copy has an old half-vellum binding with marbled paper boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, red leather spine label, and brown spattered edges; re-backed. Housed in a later beige cloth slipcase, 29 cm. The edges are closely cropped, affecting the side-notes and diagrams on some leaves (e.g. leaf 2A4)
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